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ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Page. 



Norwood, George 82, 278 



Number of eggs in immature ovaries -... 96 



O. 



Object of the memoir 1 



Ocean temperatures 52 



Ocean trout 10,138 



Oceanic sharks 69 



Oceanic sojourn C6 



Oil, a comparison of the yield of, of the 



whale and other fisheries 190 



Oil business in Maine, inception of 164 



Oil, exports of 503 



Oil factories, locations of the 165 



Oil factory, cost of an lli 



Oil, grades of 192 



Oil, tlie claims of Maine to discovery of 



menhaden 161 



Oil, menhaden, use of 191 



Oil yield in different localities 183 



Oil yield of northern fish 180 



Oil yield of southern fish 183 



Oil maaufacture, history of 101, 513 



Oil manufacture, methods of 169 



Oil manufacture, principles involved in. . . 169 



Oil manufacture, statistics of.-. 190 



Oil; number of gallons produced in Maine 186 



Old-wife 15 



Olin, Washington 393 



Oliver, Washington 80,271 



Olmstead, Frederick Law 140 



Oniscus prsegQstator 17, 102 



Orcynus alliteratus 69 



Orcynus thy unus i 69 



Osier, Samuel 213 



Osmerus mordax 70 



Otis, James E 168,175,183,189,296 



Ova of menhaden 97 



Owens, A. A 273,453 



Oysters 2,95 



Pacific coast, menhaden on 37 



Pacific Guano Company 166, 169, 227, 487 



Page, Captain 18 



Page], Dr 247 



Parasites of the menhaden 101 



Parnell, Mr 289 



Parsons, Joseph D 87, 97, 116, 272, 296, 442 



Pauhagen 11 



Payne, Benjamin, & Co 167,446 



Payne, G.H 167,296,448 



Pelamyssarda 69,106 



Pemaquid Oil Works 1C4, 165, 185, 186, 187, 188, 



296, 297, 371, 372, 402 



Perley,M. H 64,274 



Perrin, Edwin A 84 



Pettingell,C.C..... 277 



Pettingell, Capt. Charles C 82 



Pettingell, Capt. Moses 101,136,149 



Pettit, M 212,213,226 



Pew, Charles H 278 



Phillips, Barnet 4, 75, 135, 138, 273 



Phillips, Eben B . .104, 108, 115, 162, 165, 179, 181, 271, 

 273, 376, 387, 401 



Page. 



Phosphate of lime 191 



Phycis chuss 69 



Pierce, Albion K 278 



Pierce, Erskine 166, 175, 181, 188, 296 



Pierce,F.F 296,358 



Plant-food, essential ingredients of 231 



Plant nutrition, chemistry of 230 



Plumer, George W 82,278 



Poggie Jl 



Pogy 7,10,37,49,159 



Poisson blanc 68 



Poi.sson de fond 68 



Poisson de roche 68 



Poisson forain 68 



Poisson nomade 68 



Pollachius carbonarius 69, 106 



Pollock 69,106 



Pomatomus saltatrix 1, 41, 70, 106 



Pomolobns mediocris 70 



Pomolob us pseudoharengus 13, 14, 70 



Pompano 70 



Pond, J. G 82 



Pookagan 11 



Popular names 7, 9 



Porgy 11 



Porg V chum 141 



Possibilities of future oil manufacture 226 



Potter, Capt. William H 76, 85, 116, 272, 428 



Pound-fishermen 110 



Practical conclusions 249 



Prejudices and superstitions 6 



Preston, Jonathan, &, Co 444,448 



Price, Capt. F. Frank 167,168,297,444,446,448 



Prices current of menhaden oil 193, 299, 300, 



301, 302, 303 

 Prices of menhaden, different seasons .... 178 

 Prices proportionate to amount of oil con- 

 tained in fish 180 



Proctor, Joseph O 150 



Pryer, Jasper . 165, 167, 168, 175, 187, 273, 296, 364, 503 



Purse-boat 126 



Purse-seine 117,118,124 



Q- 



Quinnipiac Fertilizer Company.. .166, 1C9, 175, 176, 



183, 188. 227, 296, 297, 428, 432, 492 



Quiambog Oil Company 167, 428, 432 



K. 



Race, EdwardE 81 



Eadde, Mr 217 



Eaflnesque, C. S 276 



Range of menhaden, oceanic limits of.... 36 



Range of allied species 37 



Range, preferred, of temperature 55 



Range, southern limits of 36 



Ray nor, J. Norrison 1 68, 273, 296, 443 



Raynor, W. C 168,296 



Rays 69 



Rease, Captain 83 



Reed, H. W 273 



Refining, processes employed in 170 



Relation of the menhaden fishery to the 



fishermen and maritime villages 131 



Relative values of different fertilizers .... 244 



